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July 16, 2006, Sunday

When people first lay eyes on Kerri Strug, their impulse is to pick her up and have a photograph taken cradling her in their arms. This goes for guys on the street to Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, to Shaquille O'Neal to Arnold...

She hit the ground screening phone calls. Kerri Strug is in the phone book, in physical therapy and in a BMW. The car was hers, pre-Olympics, but privacy is no longer hers, post-Olympics. The calls are collect, the letters are from prison inmates...

September 6, 1996, Friday

The memory that lingers from the Atlanta Olympics is the sight of tiny Kerri Strug vaulting on her badly sprained ankle to clinch a gold medal for the American women's gymnastics team. The feat evoked testimonials to her guts and team spirit. But it...

August 11, 1996, Sunday

To the Sports Editor: George Vecsey's comparison of the American gymnast Kerri Strug to a war movie hero (''Strug Took Her Chances for the Gold,'' The Times, July 24) is both fitting and perverse. Like the old war movie heroes, Strug persevered...